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The busy gardening season is now in full swing. Gardening Club members began the summer season in style with a coach trip to the RHS garden at Wisley. We were very lucky as the sun shone all day and no-one … Continue reading →

Gardening Club members enjoy not only garden-visiting but also looking at notable National Trust Houses so two were included on our 2016 tour. En-route we visited Baddesley Clinton, one of the finest moated houses in England, nestling in a lovely … Continue reading →

This year’s Gardening Club Summer Soiree was held at Elmfield Cottage, Thriplow, being hosted by Bernard and Brenda Meggitt. Around 50 members enjoyed a warm mostly sunny evening walking round their recently made-over new garden. The old mainly large square … Continue reading →

Sometimes you feel that you have no control over your life – that things just happen! So it was with the Gardening Club. When I e-mailed our planned speaker (booked a year ago) and reminded him how much we were … Continue reading →

Visitors attending the Club’s Annual Show in Fowlmere Village Hall on Saturday 17 September, were ‘wowed’ by the bright and colourful displays of lovely flowers and foliage. There were amazing and abundant fruits and vegetables, mouth-watering cakes and jams, and … Continue reading →

An interesting talk from a very experienced speaker and a thoroughly nice man – the Scotsdale guru, Peter Jackson, came to talk to us about trees for the small garden. Why small gardens? It is a fact of life that … Continue reading →

Kenneth Clarke, the renowned art historian once commented that ‘gardens are the greatest gift to culture’ and by the end of Veronica Bennet’s lecture we all agreed. We are fortunate that we have the National Trust to care for over … Continue reading →

With short notice Fowlmere & Thriplow Gardening Club had to get into gear quickly to prepare for a live recording of GQT. Such a visit had been requested some five years ago – ‘better late than never’ was the general … Continue reading →

Geoff Hodges’s good advice was to avoid pests and diseases in the first place! Always walk around the garden, especially at dusk, try to find those bugs, look underneath the leaves …… Never buy a plant in a garden centre … Continue reading →